Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-23
ElNCtSIIr,
The Heirs or the Eccentric sehooI-
master.

Correspondence of tho Richmond Dispatch.l
NOVEMBER 81, 1887.
The heirs OF Grin Carpenter, the &C. |
centric schoOl-teacber, who died IN THIS !
county April. lsS6, a sketch OF whose
life appeared in the dispatch few |
weeks ago, have mt last been found. !
They live in six different States-verliy- |
ing Orin's statement that sit IS
characteristic OF the Carpenter ffmily to |
wander" / have before me the deposit
ton of Mrs. Lydia Carpenter Thatcher,
of La Grange, Cook county. Ill, IN |
which she gives the names, date OF birth, |
&c, of her parents and their seventeen !
children. Her father, Jabez, was born |
at Rahobeth. Mass, March "A, l7Sl
married to Lydia Newton. OF Rutland |
county, VT, September, 1901; moved to !
Canada, returned in time to enlist IN the |
war Of 1912. After the war he removed
TO Greece, Monroe county, n. \. In
1926 he removed to Yorkshire, Catta- |
raugus county, n. Y. Thence he re-
moved in the fall Of 1915 to Hanover,
Jackson county. Mich. thence in 1871
TO Litchfeld, Hillsdale county, Mich,
where he died April u, 1897. Her
mother was born august 26, 1875, and |
died April "a, 1872.
Ofthe seventeen children there still sur
vive six and the offsprings Of two others.
Lyman Carpenter lives IN Indiana
Mrs. Caroline Sheldon in Ohio; Walter |
Il. Hinckley, surviving child of Roxana.
in Texas Ira Carpenter Mrs. Julia Hol-
land, and Mrs. Algerona Shipman IN |
Michigan. The heirs of Austin live two |
in New York and the other Ia Michigan,
Mrs. thatcher in Illinois. From another
source ! learn that an ancestor OF this
family came over in the Maytover.
Mrs. Thatcher, in her deposition, has
this TO say about her brother Orln
And deponent further says that
while she was living with her parents ut
Greece, Monroe county, aforesaid, she
remembers that a gentleman came to
their house and spent the night with
them that during the evening he was
engaged in long conversation with her
parents, and the following day when the
gentleman left he took her brother Orin
with him; that she afterwards learned
that the gentleman's name Was Foster
and that he lived near Newark, Wayne
county, n. y, and deponent thinks that
Orln was never in his fathers. house
again.
"And deponent further says that
while Onu resided with Mr.. Foster he
Joined the Presbyterian church at New
ark that the ladies' Of the church be-
came interested in his welfare and
thought he should be educated for tue
ministry that he was accordingly sent
to the seminary at Geneva, y. y, to ac-
quire an education, and WAS there three
years that he then entered Geneva Col
lege NOW Hobut at that place that de-
ponent has IN her possession a catalogue
Of 1920, containing this endorsement
in Orin's handwriting, With the com
plimcnts of OIin Carpenter, to his SIS
ter that under the head Of freshman
his name appears Grin Carpenter, resi-
dence Newark, Room q, No. ..
Deponent further says that in April
1899. Grin and herself made 2 visit 70
their brother Austin, who then resilcd
at Albion. y. T., and found their brother
JabeZ there SICK with consumption
that Jabez aitcrgard came TO Opponents
house in Mount Morris and dlei there
August ., 1892; that in the following
spring Orin made her a visit mt Mount
Morris: that between these visits was
the year he was ~ college that dcponent
does not rtcol.ct what pursuit 0iil fcl-
lowed for the next year or two that IN
the carly part Of the year 1872 he
returned to Mount Morris end
engaged himself to one Professor
Wright. the principal of a large
school there, rs a teacher Of the
languages, and taught in thai capacity
until the close OF the year that be then
went TO some place u Allegheny coun-
ty, she thinks, and taught for q period
OF six mouths that he then informed or
wrote deponent that he was going to
Kentucky to engage in teaching, aud
she never heard Of or from MIN again
that soon thereafter dcponent and her
husband removed TO Illinois and her
parents removed to Michigan, and Grin
was never heard Of by his parents or any
Of his brothers or sisters, as size IS in
formed and believes" ACTOS.